Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-17
fLACER'S CITRUS FRUITS
NOW BEING EXHIBITED AT LOS
ANGELES.

Brief Statement of the Productions
and Resources of the Central
California Citrus Belt,
The exhibition of citrus fruits grown in
Placer county, COW being made in Los An
geles by committee of the Beard of Trade
recently organized at Auburn, has already
been made familiar to the public through
the columns of the REcoS-D- UNION. The
exhibit was forwarded last Tuesday, and
included e general display of citrus fruits
and other products grown in the county of
Placer. The exhibitors have centrally
located hall in Los Angeles, and in connec-
ton with the display have good supply OF
effective printed matter upon the adj
vantages of Placer county and this section
of the Stale, which is being placed in the
hands of visitors, and good results cannot
fail to follow. Among the documents be-
! ing thus distributed are 1000 Placer county
| pamphlets issued by the Immigration Asso-
citation, 1900 copies of Mr.. Madden s
pamphlets of Placer county statistics, 1000
copies of RECORD UNIONS special illustrated
! edition upon resources OF Placer county,
and 6,00o one-page statements just issued
| and signed by j. Parker Whitney, Presi-
dent of the Placer County Board of Trade
This statement is in part as follows:
CITRUS ExHIBIT FROM PLACER COUNTY.
The exhibition of oranges and other
fruits from Placer county now shown al
| Los Angeles is not by any means offered as
a representative one, but merely as the i'm.
promptu result from q meeting of a few
Placer county men at the county seat OF
December 3. 1887 The meeting was not
called for the purpose of considering the
subject, but was acted upon by the few
present from a suggestion made Just before
adiourning, and was taken in hand by {
few citizens who were willing to give theil
time for the purpose of getting together {
few principally oranges-merely
for the purpose of showing that Placer
county, as well as others in the State. coulc
successfully grow citrus products in theil
valuable varieties.
Placer county does not attempt to detrac
from the merits of any portion of the State
or to make any invidiOus comparisons, bu
simply in as plain manner as possible tC
show any who will take interest in the sub
| ject that she can and does produce as goo(
oranges as can be grown in any part of thu
State, and that her oranges become mar
ketable, to considerable extent, before thu
first day of December, and were put int
the market this year as early as the 20tl
of November
: To show, also, that Placer county ha
! many thousands of acres of the very frs
quality of land, applicable for the business
which can be purchased at from 500 to So
an acre, and that but from an ignorance o
the true merits of its climate in its suit
, ability to orange culture, she might at thi!
{ time be shipping hundreds of carloads o
, the first quality of oranges, which she will
inevitably do within a short period; fo
the results of the few young orange or
chards now in bearing have given the mos
astonishing results, which have stimulated
the putting out of thousands of trees which
have invariably made rapid growth an,
: demonstrated, beyond all question, that tn,
climate within the warm belt of Place
t county, some fifteen miles in width, ex
tending across the lower part of the count,
from the commencement at the foothills
at an elevation of from 200 feet up to 200
+ feet in altitude, is practically free from
damaging frosts, and that in some in
stances, even without irrigation, owing t
) the considerable average RAINFALL orange
can be grown in the highest perfection ant
Placer county is already third among tn
: counties of the State in the number o
orange trees she has growing within he
l limits. The number may be safely com
: puted at the present time il excess of IA
6 600 trees, and this number will be largel,
augmented the coming spring, when, prob
ably, from two to three times the presen
: number of orange trees will be set out. TIL
county can already show young orange or
Lob do bat IL
I expenses, of over 800 per acre, and excep
S tional single trees from which the product
have been sold for the past two or tire
years for over 500 per tree. One tree, q
{ an altitude of LOCO feet, which has been Sc
{ out only seven years, and within sight from
, the cars of the Central Pacific yielded thi
year over 500 worth of oranges alread,
marketed.
In this warm belt of Placer county tn,
= most favorable climatic conditions exist
The singular feature is here presented of
2 warmer temperature in winter than i
found upon the plains below, and there j
f practical immunity against severe frosts
! One finds at this period of the year-th
middle of December-at an altitude o
l 900 feet above the level of the sea, in tn
Placer county foothills, ripe tomatoes OF
the vines, strawberries in blossom, as wei
as the ripe fruit; lemon blossoms and thu
, ripe fruit; oranges ripening in profusion
and an endless variety of delicate plant
5 making vigorous growth in the open air.
In this region the winter climate is per
fiction itself. Here are the millions O
birds which flee from the ri gorous storm
OF northern chimes to their winter quarter
in the foothills. Here are the beautiful
hills, moderately rising from the plains
, Here the broken ranges of the Sierra Ne
; vada Mountains mingle and glide almos
imperceptibly into the long reaches of thu
? Sacramento valley, diversified here anC
there by ridges and little streams of waite
| and the most graceful and picturesque val
| leys imaginable. AS one descends from
the pine region of the mountains, through
, the manZanita and chaparral, his yision,i
surprised and gratified by the graceful con
tour of the lower foothills and their lux
urious growth CT oaks and buckeye groups
) resembling more in appearance the cult
waited parks of England than strange
would suppose in the foothills of the loft,
Sierras.
Extending from Roseville, at the southern
extremity of this county, only eighteen
miles from Sacramento, the Central Pacif
Railroad takes its course for seventy miles
through the entire length of the county
! on Its way TO Ogden and the East, shown.
: the visitor for twenty miles on his route
commencing at Roseville, hundreds O
orange trees laden with their golden fruit
and where he can see from the car window
thousands of acres of land as suitable TO
the successful cultivation of the orange a
any in the world, and where the price is 81
moderate that one would almost distrus
its value could he not see adjoining and NJ
better land bearing fruits worth hundred
of dollars in profits to the acre.
PLACER ORANGES.